Fredrick Orpen Bower, 1855-1948

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Bower was born at Ripon on 4 November 1855 and died on 11 April 1948 in his home town, to which he had retired in 1925 after his forty-year tenure of the Regius Chair of Botany in the University of Glasgow. He had excellent health throughout his long life which with his energetic sanguine temperament he enjoyed thoroughly. His chief interest was botany, an important second interest being music. His productive period as an investigator and writer extended from 1879 until 1938. Since, however, he was concerned with botany when at school and at the University and also during the last ten years of his life, he can be said to have been a serious botanist for between seventy and eighty years.

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